Micrommata formosa Pavesi, 1878
Description
Male
Prosoma with deep brown, broad longitudinal band in median part, bordererd by light lines, sides light brown. Prosoma length: 3.2-3.7 mm. Legs light brown.Opisthosoma green, dorsum with a reddish brown median band.
Body length male: 6.7-8.1 mmFemale
Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 3.7-4.4 mm.
Body length female: 9.0-12.5 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1989)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1989)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1989)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Jäger 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jäger 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jäger 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Levy 1989)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Levy 1989)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Levy 1989)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Levy 1989)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)
Eyes, frontal view
(Levy 1989)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)
Epigyne
(Urones 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1989)
Epigyne, lifted, posterior view
(Levy 1989)
Epigyne
(Breitling 2020)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Hernández-Corral & Barrientos 2022)
Vulva
(Urones 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)
Spermatheca, lateral view
(Levy 1989)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Caporiacco L di (1934) Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 121-146
Hernández-Corral J, Barrientos J A (2022) Arácnidos (Arachnida) de los arenales no Costeros de Almorxó, Pruna, Peñarrubia y Zafra (Alicante, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 63-74
Jäger P (2023) Revision of the huntsman spider genus Micrommata Latreille, 1804 (Sparassidae: Sparassinae). Zootaxa 5352: 1-45
Levy G (1989) The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Simon E (1885a) Etudes sur les Arachnides recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884 par MM. A. Letourneux, M. Sédillot et Valéry Mayet, membres de la mission de l'Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. In: Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie, publiée sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique. Zoologie – Arachnides. Paris, 55 pp.
Urones, C (2004) El género Micrommata (Araneae, Sparassidae) en la Península Ibérica, con la descripción do dos nuevas especies. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 10: 41-52
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2